That is interesting, I wonder if it is true. I was in the Vizcaya museum, in Miami Florida, and there was a silverware set that was missing, it was aboard the Titanic. The museum is nice, it is like a mansion really, it is nice it has gardens and art and nice architecture. I used to go there a lot with my dad.

"... As with many other disasters, some immediate attempts to explain it drew on supernatural causes. While human agency was also blamed by some, shortly after the sinking there were stories in circulation that the ship was lost because of a “mummy’s curse.” The outline of the legend is presented, among other locations, on the web site of the British Museum’s Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. In fact, the “Unlucky Mummy” story predates the sinking of the Titanic. The “mummy” in question is actually an inner coffin lid from the burial of an unnamed twenty-second dynasty woman (EA 22542).

While in private hands, this object was purported to have been responsible for damage in whatever room it was placed, and it was credited with bad luck and even deaths. The mummy was given to the British Museum, but the disasters associated with it continued. Because of these continued problems the museum sold it to an American who was bringing it to the United States on the Titanic.

Some versions of the story say it survived this sinking by being taken off the ship on a lifeboat, while other narratives leave the mummy on the ship when it sank.

The earliest publication linking the Titanic sinking with a mummy’s curse was The New York World, four days after the sinking. Frederic K. Seward, a first-class passenger saved from the ship, reported that the journalist and social crusader William T. Stead, who was editor of the Pall Mall Gazette as well as a periodical devoted to psychic phenomena, had told him the story in the First Class Dining Saloon. According to the article “Story that Meant Bad Luck Told by Stead During Trip,” the mummy case “had had amazing adventures, but … punished with great calamities any person who wrote its story.” This being the circumstance, Stead had insisted that he would never write the story, but apparently did not think that simply telling the story would bring that bad fortune.

While the object does exist, with the accession number noted in an early newspaper account, it has never left the collection of the British Museum; in fact, it has only been on loan from the museum once since it was donated. There is, of course, no evidence at all that any mummy was taken off the ship and placed on a lifeboat; there are no contemporary accounts of a mummy having even been loaded onto the ship as cargo. ...

I went on "the Mummy" ride at Disney World Orlando Resort. I was about to leave the line, because I was scared, I had never been on a rollercoaster bigger than the dragon coaster at the fair, some 30 yards across. I turned to get out of line and leave, and I saw a little girl probably 5 years old half my height in the line. I thought to myself if she could face it I could. Anyway I think I saw that crocodile statue in the waiting line.

... “Ghost of the Titanic: Vengeance of Hoodoo Mummy Followed Man Who Wrote Its History,” May 12, 1912.

That last headline means exactly what you think it does: less than a month after the Titanic sank, the Washington Post ran a story blaming the whole thing on a mummy’s curse. It’s unclear why the Post covered the cursed mummy beat so doggedly, although their decision to end the 1912 version of the story with a lengthy excerpt from William Butler’s autobiography suggests that filling space was a concern, as does their decision to refer to Butler’s autobiography as “the autobiography of the late Lieutenant General the Right Honorable Sir William F. Butler, Grand Commander of the Bath, which was published last year by Constable & Co., Ltd., of London.” Still, it matters what you use to fill space, and if you’re going to publish fake news, better that it be about cursed mummies than, say, “economic insecurity.” So just in time for Halloween, here’s the complete text of the all-time hottest take on the sinking of the Titanic, as published in the newspaper that eventually cleaned up its act enough to sink Nixon. ...